1889 - Old Hoss Radbourn pitches a complete doubleheader for Boston but fails to win either game. After losing the opener to Cleveland, 3 - 0, he has to hit a home run himself in the 9th inning of the nightcap to salvage a 4 - 4 tie.

Browns pitcher Rube Waddell gives up a Detroit run in the first when Ty Cobb triples home Matty McIntyre, but ties the game when he singles a run home in the 2nd. Waddell allows nothing after that and the Browns win, 2 - 1, when Syd Smith singles in the winner in the bottom of the 11th.

1920 - Carl Mays, who started yesterday, opens today for the Yankees in Detroit. This time he is more effective, stopping Detroit on two runs. Babe Ruth hits his 49th home run and Mays drives in the final run of a 4 - 2 win.

The Browns announce that George Sisler has severely strained ligaments and cannot lift his right arm over his head. He might be out for the remainder of the season, jeopardizing the Browns' pennant chances and Sisler's 39-game hitting streak. Ironically, the injury occurred when Sisler tried to catch a throw on a hit by Ty Cobb, whose streak he is trying to break. Without Sisler, the Browns rally to beat the Tigers, 8 - 6. Baby Doll Jacobson, playing 1B, makes two errors.

Pittsburgh sweeps a pair from the visiting Braves, winning 8 - 1 and 6 - 1. Wilbur Cooper and Johnny Morrison are the winners. Joe Genewich makes his major league debut in relief for the Braves. Genewich jumped from the sandlots, where he was making $5 a game pitching, directly to the Braves, bypassing the minors.

YankeeTony Lazzeri steals second base, reaches third, then steals home in the 12th to give Lefty Gomez a 2 - 1 win over Detroit in the lidlifter. New York edges the Tigers, 4 - 3, in the nitecap although Earl Whitehill holds them to six hits. One of the hits is a 2-run home run by Lou Gehrig in the 6th.

1932 - Brooklyn'sJack Quinn earns his 247th major league victory at age 49, pitching a complete game 6 - 5 win over the Cardinals. It is the final win of his career. Dizzy Dean fans nine in the nitecap, but the Cards lose, 3 - 1. Quinn will hold the record as oldest pitcher to win a game until April 17, 2012, when he will be eclipsed by Jamie Moyer.

1933 - The White Sox toss their veterans at the A's and almost pull off a sweep. Sam Jones, 41, tops Philadelphia, 3 - 2 in the opener, but the Mackmen then beat 44-year-old Red Faber, 4 - 2, in the nitecap.

1935 - Friday the 13th brings bad luck to the Cards. Trailing the Giants, 10 - 6, in the last of the 9th, the Cards tie it up and then give the ball to Dizzy Dean. But the Giants score three in the 10th against the tired star to win, 13 - 10. With Larry French and the Cubs beating the Dodgers, 4 - 1, St. Louis now leads the National League by four percentage points.

Indians teenage pitching phenom Bob Feller ties the major league record and sets a new American League record by striking out 17 batters as he two-hits the A's, 5 - 2. After the season, "Bullet Bob" will return to his Van Meter, Iowa home to graduate from high school.

1942 - Chicago Cub SS Lennie Merullo makes a major league record 4 errors in the 2nd inning of the nightcap against the Boston Braves. Merullo's son is born today and is named Boots. The Cubs win, 12 - 8, after losing the first game 10 - 6.

1948 - Cleveland P Don Black suffers a cerebral hemorrhage while at bat against the Browns. Black's life will hang in the balance for a week; his career will end. Owner Bill Veeck of the Indians arranges a benefit game for Black on September 22, a contest that attracts 76,000, and $40,000 of the receipts are turned over to the pitcher.

1949 - For the second time in his career, Ralph Kiner hits home runs in 4 consecutive at-bats, over 2 games. He performed the same feat in 1947. The 2 homers today are numbers 33 and 34 for the season. Kiner's 1949 total will include 25 on the road, 29 at Forbes Field, 14 of them in the bullpen enclosure still known as Greenberg Gardens (which will become known as Kiner Korner).

Yankees leadoff hitter Mickey Mantle drives a Virgil Trucks pitch deep into the RF upper deck to start the Yankee scoring. Witnesses say that if Mantle had hit it more to CF, the ball would have traveled 600 feet. Mantle then K's three times, as Trucks drives over New York for a 9 - 2 Detroit win. Trucks adds a pair of RBIs.

The Cards play a rare doubleheader - the first in the 20th century - with two different teams, defeating the Giants, 6 - 4, in the first game in the afternoon when they score six runs against Sal Maglie in the 2nd inning. In the nitecap, against the Braves, the Cards manage just one hit - by pitcher Al Brazle - in losing to Warren Spahn, 2 - 0. The Cards' total attendance is 8,865 - 4,160 for the Giants and 4,705 for the Braves. It is the first time since 1883 that three-team twin bill has been played.

Thanks to one of Mike McCormick's strongest performances of the year, plus a St. Louis 6 - 5 squeaker over Milwaukee, Pittsburgh's pennant run stalls briefly, their magic number frozen at 11. Struck out 13 times by the 6' 2" southpaw, the only scare Pittsburgh puts into the visiting Giants, reports Giants beat writer Bob Stevens, is "a momentarily frightening blast over the left-field wall by Roberto Clemente in the 7th." It comes off a low and inside McCormick change-up, according to Jack Hernon of the Post-Gazette, and goes "a mile high far over the left-field fence at the 406 mark with Gino Cimoli on the hassocks." Clemente's clout brings the Bucs back to within one shortly after Willie Mays' audacious base-running and the ensuing Bill Mazeroski miscue have sparked a tie-breaking, three-run 6th. Unfortunately for the Bucs, the usually reliable Elroy Face allows two 9th-inning add-on runs, making McCormick's final frame a relatively ho-hum affair.

Nellie Fox hits a 2-out home run in the 11th to give the visiting White Sox a 6 - 5 win over the Senators. It is Nellie's 2nd home run of the year.

Eighteen-year-old OF Danny Murphy becomes the youngest Cub to hit a home run when he clouts a 3-run homer off Bob Purkey, but the Reds win, 8 - 6, in Cincinnati. Murphy will play just 49 games for the Cubs from 1960 to 1962. He will come back as a pitcher for the White Sox in 1969 and 1970.

Washington OF Jim Piersall is arrested for going into the stands after a heckling fan prior to a game against Baltimore. He is charged with disorderly conduct, but later cleared. Joe Hicks replaces Jimmy in the 7 - 1 loss to the Orioles. O's winning pitcher Chuck Estrada clouts one of the three Birds homers.

In a 6 - 4 defeat to the Reds, Bobby Bonds becomes the fourth player in major league history steal at least 30 bases and hit at least 30 home runs in the same season. The other members of the 30/30 club include Ken Williams (1922), Willie Mays (1956 & 1957) and Hank Aaron (1963). Bonds will have four more 30-30 seasons during his career.

At Wrigley Field, the Pirates lead the Cubs, 2 - 1, with two outs and no one on in the 9th when Willie Smith hits a routine fly to Matty Alou. Alou drops it and three singles later the Cubs have a 3 - 2 win. The victory puts the Cubs a game behind the Bucs and a half-game behind the Mets.

The Reds'Johnny Bench hits a 2-run homer in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Braves, 8 - 6. He hit a grand slam yesterday in a 7 - 5 win over Atlanta, and he'll have 11 homers and 33 ribbies for September.

Roberto Clemente's final career regular-season home run – No. 240 – comes, fittingly, off his old friend and frequent victim Fergie Jenkins and, if it couldn't happen at home, it's fitting as well for it to occur within the "friendly confines" of Clemente's favorite place to play ball, Chicago'sWrigley Field, launching pad for numerous rockets over the years, notably the historic May 17, 1959 blast. Today's blast is a two-run, tie-breaking bomb to dead center that puts Pittsburgh ahead to stay. “A leadoff single in the 7th set the stage for another Pirate lead," writes Norman Unger of the Daily Defender, "as, two outs later, Roberto Clemente sent a homer out of the park across the centerfield bleachers.” "Clemente just hit everything I had," admits Jenkins. "He hit a slider for a single, a fastball for a triple and another slider for the home run. He's something.”

Mets C Mike Fitzgerald becomes the 48th player in major league history to hit a home run in his first at-bat, connecting for a solo shot off Tony Ghelfi in the 2nd inning of New York's 5 - 1 win over Philadelphia.

1986 - The Rangers set a club record with seven home runs in a 14 - 1 rout of Minnesota. Five of the home runs come off Twins starter Bert Blyleven, who will yield a major league-record 50 this season.

Toronto OF Joe Carter drives in a run in the Blue Jays' 7 - 6 victory over the A's, becoming the first player in history to reach the 100 plateau in three consecutive seasons with three different teams. Nine players had collected 100 RBI with three teams, but none consecutively.

A 55-ton concrete beam crashes onto an empty public walkway at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. The Expos will reschedule, playing their final 13 home games on the road while the stadium is repaired and growing cracks in concrete ribs supporting the stadium are checked out.

The Astros' game against the Rockies in Colorado is postponed when the Denver area is hit by a late-summer storm which deposits more than five inches of snow. Just 24 hours before game time, it had been 92 degrees.

The Dodgers drop a 5 - 1 decision to the Astros as Tom Candiotti's knuckleball does all sorts of tricks in the 1st inning. Candiotti hits three Houston batters in the frame, and another to lead off the 2nd, to tie a major league mark. C Mike Piazza also records two passed balls in the inning as the Astros score four of their five runs.

Due the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Major League Baseball postpones all games through September 17th. The 91 missed games, the most regular-season contests not played since World War I forced the cancellation of the final month of the 1918 season, are re-scheduled for the week after the regular season was supposed to end, meaning the World Series is likely to extend into November for the first time in history.

The U.S. Senate passes a resolution honoring Tiger broadcaster Ernie Harwell who is retiring at the end of the season. The 84-year-old has been a major league baseball announcer for 55 years.

2003 - After signing a one-day contract, Ken Daneyko grounds out to short in his professional baseball debut with the Newark Bears. The former New Jersey Devils defenseman, who was honored by the team before the game, plays a doubleheader against the Pennsylvania Road Warriors in a game started in a driving rainstorm and called immediately after his at bat.

By hitting an infield single in the second game of Seattle's doubleheader against Texas, Ichiro Suzuki reaches the 200 hit mark for the 9th straight year, a first in major league history. Texas wins the opener, 7 - 2, but loses the nitecap, 5 - 0, as Felix Hernandez wins his 15th of the year.

Philadelphia sweeps New York, 5 - 4 and 1 - 0, in a day/night doubleheader that draws almost 90,000 fans to Citizens Bank Park. In the nitecap, Pedro Martinez reminds the crowd of his glory days by shutting out the Mets over 8 innings before Ryan Madson comes in to finish the game. The only blight on Philly's day are the continuing struggles of closerBrad Lidge, who gives up two runs in the 9th in saving the opening win.

Mariano Rivera becomes the second pitcher to record 600 saves, one year after Trevor Hoffman, in preserving New York's 3 - 2 win over Seattle with a scoreless 9th inning. "Mo" is only one save behind Hoffman's all-time record, as Hoffman retired after last season.

It took him eight tries since he recorded his last win on July 24th, but 45-year-old Red SoxknuckleballerTim Wakefield, the major leagues' active win leader, finally records victory number 200. He pitches 6 innings and leaves with a 6 - 5 lead over the Blue Jays, then his teammates get to work padding that cushion, as the game ends 18 - 6. In the 9th inning, P Junichi Tazawa makes his return to the majors two years after an injury interrupted a promising major league debut.

Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers continue to steamroll over opponents. Verlander picks up his 23rd win - the first pitcher to reach that total since Barry Zito in 2002 - when he pitches 7 shutout innings over the White Sox, for a 5 - 0 win. Verlander has won his last 11 starts, something no one has done for the Bengals since Hal Newhouser in 1946. The win is also Detroit's 11th straight this month.

It may be too little too late, but the Nationals are finally getting hot, winning their 7th straight and 18th in 23 games, 6 - 1 over the Phillies. They are now 4 1/2 games back of a wild card slot, but time is running out. Ross Ohlendorf, making an emergency start in place of ace Stephen Strasburg, picks up the win.